The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019/ the salient presence of Iranian universities in various subject areas

The Times Higher Education is the only global university performance table to judge research-intensive universities across all of their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. It uses 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons, trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019 includes more than 1,250 universities. This year’s list of the best universities in the world is led by the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge for the second year in a row. Yale University is the only newcomer to the top 10, joining at eighth place, up from 12th. Meanwhile, Switzerland’s ETH Zurich has fallen out of this elite group, dropping from joint 10th to 11th place.

Tsinghua University is now the top university in Asia, after rising eight places to 22nd, becoming the first Chinese institution to lead the continent under the current methodology (since 2011). China as a whole has increased its standing, driven by improvements in citation impact.

Elsewhere in Asia, Japan has overtaken the UK as the second most-represented nation in the world, with 103 institutions (the UK has 98).

There is also good news for France, which has a top 50 university for the first time since 2011, while several leading universities in Italy, Spain and Canada have risen.

Overall, 86 countries are represented, including Iraq, Jamaica, Nepal, Tanzania and Kazakhstan for the first time.

This ranking is among the top 11 world domains, some of which have several sub-themes.

These topics include engineering and technology (including general engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering and electronics and chemical engineering), biological sciences (including biological sciences, sports sciences, veterinary science, agriculture and forestry). ), Physical sciences (includes physics and astronomy, chemistry, geology, environment and marine sciences, statistics and mathematics) Arts and Humanities (including language, literature and linguistics, history, philosophy and theology, art, performing arts and design, Archeology, Architecture, Medicine (Clinical, pre-clinical & health) (includes other health, medicine and dentistry) economics and commerce (including economics and econometrics, Social affairs (including geography, sociology, politics and international studies, communications and media), computer science, psychology, education and law.

The thematic thesaurus is also based on the same 13 World Time Ratings Performance Indicators, but each of these indices is commensurate with each subject area.

Of the 11 subject areas that the THE ranked, Iranian universities have been able to study in nine clinical , pre-clinical health fields, physical sciences, arts and humanities, social sciences, economics and commerce, life sciences, education, Computer science and engineering and technology are among the top universities in the world.

University of Tehran in the fields of education with a range of 400-301, arts and humanities with a score of 401+ and social sciences with a range of 500-401, the only university in Iran among the world's top universities in these areas.

In the field of economics and commerce, Tehran University, along with the University of Isfahan, is ranked among the top universities in the world by ranking between 3 400-301 and 501+ universities in Iran.

In the medical field of Iran, 5 universities are among the 721 top universities in the world. Tehran University of Medical Sciences ranked first among Iranian universities by ranking in the ranking of 500-401, and in the next rank of Iran's medical sciences universities, Mashhad Medical Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences with a range of 600-501 and a university Shahid Beheshti Medical Sciences ranked among the top universities at 601 +.

In the field of life sciences, 11 universities in Iran are among the 751 top universities in the world, with the Isfahan University of Technology with the rank of 600-501 ranked first in the universities of Iran, after which the universities of Ferdowsi, Mashhad, Guilan, The medical sciences of Iran, Isfahan, Shahid Bahonar, Kerman, Shahid Beheshti, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran and Urmia are ranked 601+.

In the field of physical sciences, there are 24 universities in Iran among the 963 top universities in the world. The Babylonian Noushirovan University, with a range of 300-251 students and a university in Kashan with a range of 500-401, among Iranian universities Respectively ranked first and second. Industrial Universities of Amirkabir, Gilan, Iran Science & Technology, Isfahan Industrial Co., Sharif Industrial Co., Tehran, with a range of 5-500 and Azeri martyrs, Ferdowsi, Mashhad, Mazandaran, Shahid Beheshti, Shiraz, Shiraz, Tabriz and Zanjan Ranked 800-601 and the universities of Al-Zahra, Birjand, Isfahan, Khwarizmi, Bahonar Kerman, Shahrood, Urmia and Yazd universities with a range of +801 are on the list.

In the field of computer science, 9 universities of Iran are among the 684 top universities in the world, Amirkabir industrial universities, Isfahan, Shiraz, Tabriz and Tehran universities with a range of 401-500, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Khaje Nasiriddin Tusi, Shahid Paradise with a ranking of 600-500 and Isfahan University with a rating of 601+ are on the list.

In the field of engineering and technology, 23 of Iran's universities are among the 903 top universities in the world, with the Noushirovani University of Babylon and the University of Tehran with the rank of 300-251 among the universities of Iran ranked first in this field. Universities of Guilan, Kashan, Mazandaran and Sharif Industrial Estate with a range of 400-301, Amirkabir Industrial and Industrial Universities of Isfahan with a range of 500-401, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Science and Technology of Iran, Shiraz, Industrial Shiraz and Tabriz The ranking range from 600 to 501, Shahid Madani universities of Azarbaijan, Isfahan, Kharazmi, Khaje Nasir-Al-Din Tousi, Shahid Beheshti, Shahrood, Urmia and Zanjan with a range of 601-800 and finally Shahid Bahonar universities of Kerman and Yazd with 801 + Are shown in this list.